Republicans fear Trumpnado

Top Republicans are flummoxed by billionaire businessman and entertainer Donald Trump, 69, and are unsure how worried they should be that his frequent offensive comments could taint the GOP brand and damage the party's prospects against Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

Republican operatives working in the primary campaign fret that Trumpisms, such as calling illegal immigrants from Mexico "rapists," as he did last month when announcing his bid for the Republican nomination, could doom the party with minorities and independents in the 2016 general election.

Many veteran party bigwigs are unconcerned, however, dismissing the New Yorker as a clown whose campaign will be overshadowed by the depth and quality of the GOP's White House field.

Charlie Black, a Washington lobbyist who has advised Republican candidates going back to Ronald Reagan and is officially neutral in the 2016 primary, likened Trump to Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul. He said those two candidates had "outlier" messages and garnered much attention but had no impact on the image of the eventual Republican nominees.

"Donald is a sideshow and a distraction right now," Black told the Washington Examiner in an email. "Once the debates start next month and more candidates get more coverage and interest, his prominence in the race will decline. He will end up not getting very many votes, so he will not define the brand. The nominee will do that."

At the moment, that's the consensus among wealthy Republican donors and campaign bundlers....

With the exception of Ted Cruz and whether you like him or not Rand Paul non of the other GOP candidates is going to look good in the debates as long as Trump is there. They won’t be able to slither around and dissect what the meaning of “is” is. Trump will say what he’s going to say and the others will look weak and clueless. I can hardly wait.

Taint the GOP brand? It is and has been for years... shite.

Here is a conservative talking. Judge Trump on what he says not what a bunch of sell outs and liberals accuse him of being.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYjj26TUGIc

I do not have to Google anything, I've been a Reagan supporter since 1968. You won't find the information you seek on Google.

Reagan was regarded (famously coined by Clark Clifford years later) as an amiable dunce, a lightweight movie actor, "second banana" to a chimp. He briefly flirted with running for President in 1968. His speech at the 1964 convention identified him as dangerously radical, outside the mainstream...even more radical than Barry Goldwater, the target of the infamous 'Daisy' ad.

In 1976, there was no more establishment politician than Jerry Ford. Many believe the RINO Corps a recent phenomenon, the uniparty a modern plague; if the Uniparty were a basketball league, Jerry Ford would have been on the logo, rather than Jerry West. There was near unanimous support for establishment positions such as Keynesian politics and arms control, all wrapped up in the notion of a 'gifted elite' whose job was to govern the rubes. Carter was more of the same, safely establishment and elitist...best of all, "Ah weel not lah to yew."

Reagan, by contrast, was none of these things...not elitist, not Keynesian, not a supporter of arms control as practiced...therefore, intellectually unserious, a dangerous demagogue seeking to con the simpletons.

Reagan was publicly regarded as all these things, most of all by the establishment (including the Repub establishment.) I believe he was right on the issues, which goes beyond 'intellectual' as currently practiced. He was settled in his views. This is the only difference I see with Trump.

I'm guessing you have a few rings around your trunk...you must surely know this.

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